Sweden spent 210 years avoiding military alliances. On its National Day, June 6, it placed 600 soldiers under NATO command in the Arctic — leading the alliance's new battlegroup on Russia's northern doorstep.
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On Sweden's National Day, a country that spent more than two centuries avoiding military alliances took formal command of a NATO battlegroup positioned at the edge of the Arctic, placing its soldiers ...